by | Dec 14, 2022 | Newsletter
Since it was first piloted in September 2018, the Department of FISCal’s (FI$Cal) transparency website, Open FI$Cal, has continued to grow and provide more useful information on the state’s expenditures to the people of California. In November 2022, the website took...
by | Nov 4, 2021 | Newsletter
The FI$Cal system is constantly evolving to provide a better user experience and Power BI is one of the primary tools deployed by the Department of FISCal to enhance the system. Implemented to end users in 2019, Power BI is a robust business intelligence tool for...
by | Mar 16, 2021 | Newsletter
The Department of FISCal is increasing its use of robotic process automation (RPA) to make life easier for our system users and their departments. RPA employs software, known as “bots,” to perform ordinary tasks that must be run over and over again. Think of it as...
by | Feb 4, 2021 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, Director of FI$Cal I am happy to report on all the progress we have achieved at FI$Cal plus some exciting new developments as we start 2021. Despite COVID-19 forcing a move to telework early in 2020, we managed to get closer to our goal...
by | Jan 6, 2021 | Newsletter
The FI$Cal system is so big, so complex that it can be difficult to grasp everything it does, especially over a long period of time. The numbers, such as $2 trillion in annual banking transactions or 20 terabytes of data, are simply too vast. Organizations sometimes...
